Example sentences of "than do " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can not be repeated too often that a dancer requires less time to make a statement than do words or music . |
| 2 | She says she would rather die than do that again . |
| 3 | Those who , day by day , show regular habits and who are subjected to these external influences in a regular way possess body clocks that are more accurately adjusted to 24 hours than do those whose life-style is less regular ( see fig. 2.4 and pp. 97–99 , for example ) . |
| 4 | Older people tend to be nearer the upper limit of any range than do younger people , but some combination of the factors mentioned can help individuals approach the lower limits . |
| 5 | Both are more likely to escape than do anything . |
| 6 | Easier to say than do ? |
| 7 | That is because institutions pay proportionately much less on dealing commissions ( which average around 0.2% ) than do private clients ( about 1.5% ) . |
| 8 | Because of their low ratings , some of America 's biggest banks pay more for short- and long-term funds than do their industrial customers . |
| 9 | Better to go on as before than do that . |
| 10 | Studies show that women workers on the average lose no more work hours because of illness than do men . |
| 11 | Enhanced farm incomes will affect the farmers ' production decisions and capacity , but policies can be designed which have much smaller impacts on production , consumption , trade and world prices than do many of the existing policies , the bureau adds . |
| 12 | Findings from the unions were a surprise to those who had glimpsed Utopia as a world where work became unnecessary : one American union polled its members and discovered that though they thought work was boring , they would rather do that than do nothing . |
| 13 | Better be dead than do that . |
| 14 | These , with automatic fire-alarms going off inexplicably , account for a far higher percentage of calls than do fires . |
| 15 | In general , intermediates have more offspring in repeated generations than do extremes and , for this reason selection favouring intermediates is called ‘ stabilizing ’ . |
| 16 | From about 75 more people have some level of disability than do not . |
| 17 | In a similar way , as we shall find later , although the widowed and still married give similar pictures of the practical division of roles in their married lives , the widowed tend to interpret these apparently similar marriages differently , remembering themselves as having been closer couples than do those who are still married . |
| 18 | Subsequent discrimination training thus occurs between the compound of A and its associate X and of B and its associate Y. If the events used as X and Y differ from each other more than do A and B ( see Fig. 5.10(b) ) then it might be supposed that the compounds would be discriminated more readily than would an untrained A and B. Certainly most proponents of an associative account for acquired distinctiveness effects have taken their analysis no further , implying that the phenomenon follows directly from what has just been said . |
| 19 | When seen in conjunction with the Cloister Court , of which it forms the northern side and which offers some fine Tudor brickwork , it presents a showpiece of a rather more homely kind than do the grand stone courts of some other colleges . |
| 20 | I 'd cut my throat rather than do it again … |
| 21 | The bivariate relationship between terminal education age and preparedness to break the law suggests a different conclusion about the relationship between education and respect for the law in Britain in 1984 : more of those who left school at 16 or above say they are prepared to break the law ( 0.364 ) than do those who left at 15 or younger ( 0.274 ) , a difference of +0.090 . |
| 22 | Long-firm fraudsters seem to get treated more leniently by the police and the legal system than do ‘ conventional ’ criminals . |
| 23 | Thus , London and other large cities have higher rates of crime per 100,000 of population than do smaller and medium-sized towns . |
| 24 | Having said that , as the figures given above indicate , the younger age groups , the 14 to under 17 's followed closely by the 17 to under 21's , contain far higher proportions of people who are found guilty of , or cautioned for , criminal offences than do older age groups . |
| 25 | It might be argued that despite their relative success at ‘ making out ’ in prison , long-firm fraudsters suffer far greater ‘ relative deprivation ’ than do other prisoners . |
| 26 | For on the outside , they live far more lavishly than do ‘ ordinary ’ criminals , and experience a correspondingly greater contrast between ‘ normal ’ and prison life … |
| 27 | The influence of Carstairs may still be detected in the handwriting of many Americans who , generally , apply a higher standard to calligraphy than do the English for similar purposes . |
| 28 | Part of the diet can be raw but not totally because raw foods require more digestive power than do cooked . |
| 29 | Teachers often feel they have a wider view of what constitutes good education than do many parents , who are stereotyped as being over-concerned with ‘ uniform , discipline and exam results ’ . |
| 30 | This has shown how boys demand , and receive , a greater proportion of the teacher 's attention than do girls , and may lead to changes in policy and practice ( Bousted 1989 ) . |